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Old 01-17-2008, 05:16 PM
NicK
 
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Default Re: Windows has wrong drive letter

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> "Dan Pelton" <dnp@ams.org> wrote in message
> news:1QbCb.1501$hf1.628@lakeread06...
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a dell laptop 5150. I installed Redhat 9 and Windows XP.
>>They both boot fine using grub. The problem is that in windows
>>the boot drive is E: instead of C:.
>>
>>I have 4 partitions. The 1st is /boot and the 2nd is NTFS,
>>which is where windows is installed.

>
>
> I ran into the same problem. Don't worry about it, fixing it now is just
> asking for your head handed to you on a platter, and the Windows software
> should correctly apply onto the drive of your own choice with the E:
> partition as the boot partition.
>
>


PowerQuest PartitionMagic can fix all those issues for you on disk
labelling - it'll get the drive letter fixed and will correct all the
references too! I just love that utility but it has issues with resizing
NTFS partitions, at times.

-Mr.I-recommend-Partition-Magic

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